April 24, 2008

Here is the patch message from today:

*** Highlights ***

 - Reduced experience requirements and increased bane damage on SoF evolving bane weapons.
 - Several speed and stability changes have been made to address issues with proximity loading.
 - Critical heals should be calculating their effectiveness correctly again.
 - Fixed a problem that was not allowing players over level 62 access to Bastion of Thunder and the Halls of Honor on the progression server.



*** Items ***

 - The Guardian Expediators are no longer so fragile (they are no longer temporary items).
 - Added bard mods to the melee centric slot 12 augments.
 - Reduced experience requirements and increased bane damage on SoF evolving bane weapons.
 - Changed Intricate Snowborn armor to use malleable ore as it should.

*** Spells ***

 - Spells should once again display their cast messages when they land.
 - Critical heals should be calculating their effectiveness correctly again.

*** AA ***

 - If the Summon Resupply Agent AA fails to cast, the refresh timer will reset itself.
 - AAs that reduce spell recast timers (Such as Fortified Intervention and Fortified Survival) should now properly reduce their timers.
 - AA experience should now be split properly again.

*** Miscellaneous ***

 - Leadership AAs should work more reliably with mobs that come from outside of the group's awareness range.
 - Several speed and stability changes have been made to address issues with proximity loading.
 - The client will now load more information upon initial zone-in to make later movement smoother.  There will be a performance hit when first zoning in, however.
 - The tracking window updates have been optimized and should be somewhat faster now.
 - Fixed issues where /guildstatus and /guildinvite were not working on players outside of proximity range.
 - The corpses of group members who die outside of proximity range should once again be targetable by clicking their name and should show on the map.
 - Fixed several issues with the /hidecorpse command:
 - - You can now hide corpses after being resurrected from hover mode.
 - - Corpses of group members not in zone will no longer be hidden with /hidecorpse allbutgroup.
 - - /hidecorpse looted will not hide your own corpse.
 - The /who guild command should now return players in the zone who are in /roleplay mode.
 - The /who count command will again work for all players in the zone.
 - Using the center view key after moving downward on a mount will no longer cause your view angle and movement angle to be out of sync.
 - Right clicking a player's name in the bazaar window will again face you towards them and generate a path.
 - Due to issues with NPCs summoning players below the world, NPCs will once again summon to their exact position.  The change will be returned once the issues are resolved.
 - Fixed a problem that was not allowing players over level 62 access to Bastion of Thunder and the Halls of Honor on the progression server.
 - Fixed a problem with access to Theatre of Blood.  You should now be able to enter Theatre of Blood at level 68.

*** Previously Updated ***

 - As of 4/16/2008, enemies will forget about feigned players after one minute rather than two.


- The EverQuest Team